A Sampling of Clips for 
October 18 - 20, 2003

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Souped-Up Genes Pulled Humans into Fast Lane
New Scientist, Oct. 18-The human brain may have shot ahead of its primate predecessors by shifting the activity of a suite of genes into a higher gear. A new analysis of chimp and human brains indicates that for the small number of genes that differ between chimps and people, 90 percent are more active in human brains. Ajit Varki of the University of California, San Diego is part of the team that published the evolutionary analysis of human and chimp brain genes last year.
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Nobelists with 20/20 Hindsight
Business Week, Oct. 20-To see into the future, economic and financial forecasters extrapolate from the past. So imagine their distress when, in 1974, Welsh-born economist Clive W.J. Granger showed that the statistical techniques forecasters were using to come up with patterns in historical data were simply wrong. It was for these techniques that Granger and Robert F. Engle -- who had neighboring offices at the University of California at San Diego for 25 years -- were jointly awarded the Nobel prize in economics on Oct. 8.
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Dean Sparks Debate On His Potential To Remold Party; Despite Successes, Some Fear General Election Rout
Washington Post, Oct. 20-Howard Dean's success raising money and mobilizing voters has provoked a growing debate among Democratic and Republican strategists over whether the former Vermont governor has the potential to become a "transformative" political figure, altering, for better or worse, the financial and constituent base of the Democratic Party. (Quote by Samuel L. Popkin, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego.)
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Same article appeared in:
MSNBC, Oct. 20
http://www.msnbc.com/news/982424.asp

Committee Tapped to Find New UCSD Chancellor
San Diego Business Journal, Oct. 20- University of California President Robert Dynes has named a 17-member committee of UC regents, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members to advise him in the search for the next chancellor of UCSD. Dynes will chair the committee. The vacancy in the chancellor's office was created when Dynes, who served as UCSD chancellor beginning in 1996, assumed the presidency of the UC system on Oct. 2.
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State Hopes To Cash In On Biotech
St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 20-As Scripps Research Institute plans to open a branch in Palm Beach County, there are many factors to consider as to whether or not the new institute will be as much of a success as it has been in San Diego. Relationships with universities are essential to creating the critical mass necessary to make Scripps work. UCSD has been a critical part of the success of the San Diego Scripps Research Institute.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031020/NEWS/310200325/1134

San Diego-Based Group Should Affect Growth, Jobs, Education in the Region
TCPalm, Oct. 20-State and local officials project that the Scripps Research Institute's new Palm Beach County facility, called Scripps Florida, will directly employ 6,500 people and indirectly support 40,000 new jobs. It is expected to have the same transforming effect on the Treasure Coast and the surrounding area as the San Diego Scripps had on Southern California, industry analysts say. (Quote by Ethan Bier, professor of cell and developmental biology at UC San Diego.)
http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_business/article/0,1651,TCP_1012_2360887,00.html

No Niño, No Niña, No Clear Forecast
Fresno Bee, Oct. 20- A noticeable tremor sometimes passes through the voices of meteorologists when they talk about the coming winter. For the first time in six winters, meteorologists have no idea whether this year's winter will be wet or dry. The usual signs of El Niño and La Niña, two of the most powerful weather influences on the planet, are not present. (Quote by Dan Cayan, a climate researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/7619073p-8526381c.html

EPA Decision to End Hazardous Waste Database Sparks Criticism
Copley News Service, Oct. 17-After years of delays and numerous backlogs, the U.S. government has shut down a key database that measures the flow of hazardous waste from Mexico into the United States. Officials of the Environmental Protection Agency have decided to discontinue the Haztraks system, citing budget constraints. (Quote by Katherine Kopinak, former scholar at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.)
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Recalling History
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 19- The recent recall election represented an unprecedented "teaching moment" to connect Californians with their state's past. Whether this historic momentum can be sustained remains to be seen. As it stands, historians worry that most of Golden State's 35 million residents are marching forward while remaining clueless about events gone by. (Quote by Steve Erie, a political scientist at UC San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/currents/news_mz1c19hist.html

Unions Walk Fine Line
Copley News Service, Oct. 17- As head of an American Postal Workers Union local in San Diego County, Tom Wood has been asking members to do what they can to help striking grocery workers in their cause. He has urged them to walk the picket lines outside Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons stores. When labor groups held a rally yesterday to support the grocery workers, Wood was there. (Quotes by Gary Fields, an assistant professor of communication at UCSD and Kent Wong, director of the UCSD Center for Labor Research and Education.)
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Business Journal Writers Honored By San Diego Press Club
San Diego Business Journal, Oct. 20-Staff members of the San Diego Business Journal picked up seven awards Oct. 15 at the San Diego Press Club's 30th annual awards ceremony. Winning second place for Education was reporter Rene'e Beasley Jones, with her piece "UCSD Takes on New School of Thought."
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Award-Winning Newspaper
La Jolla Light, Oct. 16-La Jolla Light was honored with nine awards from the San Diego Press Club's 30th annual Journalism Awards banquet Oct. 15. First place in Education was awarded to Robert Fulton for his feature on the Preuss School at UCSD. Third place in Business, Finance and Technology was awarded to Steve Mayberry for a story on UCSD's new business school.
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/10/16/n031016award_winning.html